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326. Not Your Favorite Father's Day Scripture

Genesis 21:8-21

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Johnny Dean

... s enough. But, as I mentioned back on Mother’s Day, woe be unto the preacher who does not say nice things about Mom on Mother’s Day. Inn his book Fatherhood, comedian Bill Cosby talks about the difference between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Cosby claims that Mother’s Day is much bigger deal because women are more organized than men. Mothers say to their children, "Now here is a list of what I want. Go get the money from your father and you surprise me on Mother’s Day." Cosby then says, "For ...

327. He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear

Luke 8:1-15

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Larry Powell

... a child who has just fallen from a tree, breaking his arm, and says, "It is God's will." Now, someone may say how wonderful it is that persons can exhibit such unfaltering faith in the Will of God that they resign themselves to whatever happens by claiming it is the Will of God. Such blind resignation may impress some people as the mark of great faith, but to others of us - it is just clouds in our coffee. There is a certain irrationality about the attitude which suggests that God wills storms, snuffs out ...

328. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

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Larry Powell

... endures forever." (1:24) A man will go down into the snake pit in search of his glory and in search of the longest time. Others will seek their glory in eternity, which is beyond time. The choices have not changed much, have they? INCREDIBLE JOURNEY It is claimed that for every pound of fat we add to our bodies, we also add somewhere between 200 to 1,000 miles of additional capillaries to feed body cells. I find that rather astounding. If this is true (and I assume that it is), and if I weigh 190 pounds ...

329. No Grey Area

Acts 15:1-21

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Carl Hoefler

... disputes or hassles between friends. The acceptance of Christ as Lord, debating issues, not debasing people, listening, and being open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit through patience and persistence - these ingredients are the way to unity and solidarity for all, who would claim to be a part of the Body of Christ. A legend tells us of two knights in armor who were riding down a road. They passed a shield which was hanging from a tree. They both stopped. One said, "Did you see that magnificent white ...

330. Remember That You Are Not Alone

John 3:1-21

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Robert V. Dodd

... how can we know for certain that Christ lives in us? Here is the test by which we can make sure that we are in him: whoever claims to be dwelling in him, binds himself to live as Christ himself lived. [1 John 2:6 NEB] What are the implications of Christ's living in ... you are not, the result is bound to be fear of being found out. God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to be sharing in his life while we walk in the dark, our words and our lives are a lie ... [1 John 1:5-6 NEB] If we ...

331. Mission to Unbelievers

Luke 16:19-31

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Wallace H. Kirby

... respectable presentation of the faith. How many sensitive and thoughtful persons do we lose when we insist on presenting Christianity in forms and styles that do not speak to today’s mind-set? A young man came to my office who had been feeling the claim of God upon his life. He was reading the New Testament and had gotten into the Book of Revelation, where his university-trained mind simply boggled. Taken straight and without context, he could have none of the bizarre mood of Revelation. He saw no options ...

332. Loosed from the Pangs of Death

Acts 2:14-41

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... and fullest, knowing that one day we will also share his glory. It is a faith and a life I commend to you. It is the only way I know to escape being victimized by life, to live victoriously instead. We are Easter people. Every day is a resurrection day. Claim that faith and celebrate your life. Let us pray: O God, by whose power and love we came into life and have continued to live, help us to trust your power to continue tongive us life. Beyond the darkness, beyond the shadows of earth may we see the light ...

333. Don't Go Near The Water

Matthew 7:24-29

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... for human life. That base is hearing and doing his words. That alone provides a sure foundation for life building. Jesus says this to those of us who recognize his authority as much as he says it to those who do not. I know that I need to hear his claim. What I particularly need to hear is that the base, the foundation, is obedience to all of Jesus' words. It is that alone which can keep the house of my life from falling. Some of Jesus' words I obey as unhesitatingly as I did my mother's command, "Don't ...

334. Proper 21 & Pentecost 19

Ezekiel 18:1-32, Psalm 25:1-22, Psalm 99:1-9, Exodus 32:1-33:6, Philippians 2:1-11, Philippians 2:12-18, Matthew 21:28-32

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... repentance and the reassurance that comes to us in knowing that God forgives us of our sins. 1. Like it or not, there are too many times in our lives when we act too much like the religious leaders who opposed Jesus and rejected the good news. Like them, we claim to be true believers, but our lives give us away as backsliders in the faith, who declare their allegiance to God in church on Sunday, but live differently on Monday and the rest of the week. We say, "I will," but we don't engage in the business of ...

335. Who Are God’s People?

Exodus 19:1-25

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John R. Brokhoff

... god which is no god? On the other hand, if all peoples belong to God, all religions are equal ways to God. As modern Pluralism claims, one religion is as good as another. If all peoples are God’s, then all will be saved. This is the position of Father Walbert ... . To be God’s people is a matter of grace. It was God who took the initiative to call a people to be his. Can we claim to be God’s people? By what right do we repeatedly refer to ourselves as the people of God? For one thing, we are God’s ...

336. Recovering From the Blahs

1 Kings 19:9-18

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John R. Brokhoff

... struggle with "burn-out." One in five American ministers has lost his/her zest for the gospel ministry and claims to get little joy from service to God. Depressed, such persons suffer from stress, fatigue, and exhaustion. In our ... going to do what I tell you?" In a world like this, we need to do what we can to handle our problems. Some do nothing because they claim the problems are too big for one person. Can one fight city haIl? Can one person change the decisions of Congress? Yet, every one needs to do ...

337. Food for Faith

Matthew 14:13-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... the period? Look at the wall? Daydream?" No, you take your Bible and read a passage until you have found something that speaks to you. Now stop and reflect on what you read. Is God saying anything to you in this passage? Any command to obey? Any promise to claim? Any example to follow? Any sin to avoid? Any prayer to echo? This is called reflection or meditation. You get quiet and still. You focus your mind on God and his Word. The next step is to respond to God by prayer which is talking to him. Speak to ...

338. Nag, Nag, Nag!

Matthew 15:21-28

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John R. Brokhoff

... was kept to a minimum, just enough to transact business. Now this infidel, who is outside the household of faith, has the nerve to beg Jesus for help, for even a miracle of healing. In Jesus’ day the Jewish religion was for Jews only. They were, they claimed, the chosen people of God. They were the people of God by virtue of the covenant which made God their God and nobody else’s. It was a shocking thing for Jews to see Jesus consorting with the "false" religion of the Gentiles. He fraternized with them ...

339. Blessed Are The Focused - Father's Day

Proverbs 4:1-27

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Bill Bouknight

... . Your spouse, only half in jest, suggests that she has to make an appointment to see you. Don't they have legitimate claims on you? Take heart, parents, there is help for you in the scriptures. My friend from Texas, Max Lucado, helped me discover ... this soberly, then asked, "Well, why don't they put him in a slower group." Parents, remember this. If you can't say no to some claims, your life will drip away like a leaky faucet. You won't make much of a splash anywhere. I was in a meeting one afternoon when ...

340. Who Is This Jesus?

Colossians 1:15-23

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Bill Bouknight

... of sermons on the essential beliefs of our faith, there is no other proper place to begin than with Jesus. There is only one thing distinctive about the Christian faith, and that is Jesus Christ. We are the only major faith on earth to claim that God himself became a human being, died an atoning death, and rose triumphant from the grave. When our Methodist founder John Wesley dispatched the first preachers to America in the mid-Eighteenth Century, his last direction to them was simply this: "Offer them ...

341. Adultery, Cure and Prevention

Proverbs 7:1-27, John 8:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

... story of a priest in the Philippines, a much- loved man of God who carried the burden of a secret sin he had committed many years before. He had repented but still had no peace about it. In his parish was a woman who deeply loved God and who claimed to have visions in which she spoke with Christ. The priest, however, was skeptical about that. To test her he said, "The next time you speak with Christ, ask him what sin I committed while I was in seminary." The woman agreed. A few days later the priest asked ...

342. God Stood Up

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James Bjorge

... don’t recognize him at all. He doesn’t fit their preconceived description and he answers some of the questions put to him in such revolutionary fashion. They think he must surely be kidding. Maybe this Christmas season we had better take a better look at this Jesus who claimed to be God. The first thing that sort of shakes us up is that this Jesus was very human. God really became man. To some this is a take-it or leave-it kind of concept. In the early church it was very serious business. In fact, there ...

343. Defeating Giants

1 Samuel 17:1-58

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Bill Bouknight

... I'm feeling so many opposite emotions...happy, sad, scared, excited...you get the picture. I'm a basket case!! But I know God is in control and using everything for good..." Who gives her that confidence in the midst of stress? The Holy Spirit residing within her. Claim that same Holy Spirit day by day in 1997 and be protected from terror or despair. NOTICE A SECOND STRATEGY OF DAVID: USE WHAT YOU HAVE. King Saul tried to arm David with that heavy metal gear, but it wasn't comfortable for the boy. He took ...

344. Great Is Your Faith

Matthew 15:21-28

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Brett Blair

... nothing that we have done to merit his mercy, in no position to make demands, we go to God in faith. The woman said to Jesus: Sir, even the dogs eat the scraps from the master's table. She was saying in effect: Sir, I admit that I have no claim upon you, but there must be some extra grace that you have that I would be deserving of. Jesus replied to her: Woman, what great faith you have. Be it as you wish. From that moment her daughter was restored to health. The greatness of this woman's faith consists ...

345. Restoring Our Sense of Priorities

Exodus 20:1-21

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Donald Macleod

... the human as well as the material. From such a scheme no good can ever emerge, and hence "so what?" is ultimately popular and acceptable. The grim reality is that from us has gone almost any concept of a Being who loves us and therefore has a moral claim upon us, or any sense of purpose, but all is "a jumble of things going it blind" (to use Fosdick’s phrase), with nothing that cares, and hence we feel no pull of any ultimate meaning to life. There is no rationale whatsoever for the Ten Commandments in ...

346. Hot Tubs and Fishing Trips

Mark 1:14-20

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Thomas Long

... , overwhelmed, and controlled by the demands of others. But there is a deeper sense in which none of us finally wants to "be our own person." We long to hear the sound of another’s voice summoning us, valuing our life enough to make a claim upon it. Sometimes, when parents are scolding their children for unacceptable behavior, they will say, "That was uncalled for!" That is a strange phrase, when you think of it, "uncalled for," but it points, I believe, to the source of our restless searching and of ...

347. FOLLOW TO THE JUDGMENT HALL

John 8:48-59

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John W. Rilling

... worth to be known as a Christian. The Greek word for fish ICHTHUS, five letters in Greek, were the secret confession "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior." The radical critics will admit only the first word - Jesus, the rest they strike out as false claim by the church. Jesus accepts this criticism patiently and invites his critics to come and see. A famous classic scholar, religiously agnostic, at home in the cultivated Greek of Homer and Plato and Aschylus announced that he was going to make a translation of ...

348. That Carpenter Is God

Mark 6:1-6

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Ron Lavin

... That is surprising. The opposite truth is also surprising: That Carpenter is God In Nazareth that was the surprise. "That carpenter, Jesus, the one whom we have known from boyhood, the one who is Mary’s son, the one whose brothers and sisters we know - he is claiming to be a rabbi." The people took offense at the appearance of a common man - one of them, - an unlearned man, - from their own humble town, - a working man from their own class, masquerading as a rabbi. Do you feel the scandal of it? They did ...

349. Who Does He Think He Is?

Mark 2:1-12

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Daniel G. Mueller

... they asked in sheer wonder, "When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?" (John 7:31). How could he? Jesus did it all: healing, casting out demons, controlling nature, raising the dead, even coming back to life again himself. Many have claimed to be the Christ; many have presented themselves as "god." Only one of them all has ever died and come back to life again. Of all the divine works of Jesus, the one most definitive sign of his godhood is the way he forgave sins. The scribes ...

350. When the Word Comes to the Wilderness

Luke 3:1-20

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William G. Carter

... made all the difference in the world. We can hear this Word if our hearts are hungry. We can hear God’s promises to give us life and heal our wounds. We can take the bread and drink the cup, and remember how God has made the ultimate sacrifice to claim us for himself. “All flesh shall see the salvation of God.” That’s the ancient promise during these days in Advent. It is a Word we can count on. We shall see the salvation of God ... as long as we pass by John the Baptist. 1. Eugene Peterson, Working ...

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